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Get a Kinect clone for £50

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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So you’ve been eyeing the Microsoft Kinect for some time but haven’t been able to cough up the $150? There are much cheaper alternatives out there, and one of them is the MotionZone coming out later this year.

Verizon feature phone users could boost iPhone activations by 19 million

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Analyst William Power of R.W. Baird & Co. is making a bold prediction on Verizon iPhone sales. While other analysts and Verizon itself is predicting a conservative 11 million units sold in the upcoming year, Power is projecting a whopping 19 million in sales for the Apple-branded smartphone...

Samsung S5260 Star II Touchscreen Phone

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Samsung has announced its new Touchscreen Smartphone, the Samsung S5260 Star II which is the successor of the Samsung Star.

LG BP650 Portable Blu-ray Player

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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LG announced its new and also its first portable Blu-ray player that they call the LG BP650. Other than Blu-ray playback, the device is also capable of DVD upscaling and it supports Dolby True HD.

LTE-Advanced demo can pull 700MB video in 9.3 seconds

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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The South Korean government's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has demoed one of the first public instances of LTE-Advanced.

European Commission clears Intel’s buyout of McAfee

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The European Commission has now approved the $7.68 million buyout of McAfee by Intel. The approval required Intel's promise to ensure the interoperability of the new McAfee products with those of Intel's competitors in order to eliminate antitrust concerns.

Thermaltake Level10 PC Case Takes Gaming Rigs to the Next Level

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We normally don’t feature such specific computer hardware, particularly cases, but this one was just too cool-looking to pass up. The Thermaltake Level 10 gives each of your components its own housing, meaning they get more airflow around each of them.

The Daily, the iPad newspaper will cost $0.99 per week, expected to launch “in the next two weeks”

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Gadgets / Other, Web Those still waiting for the iPad only newspaper, The Daily, may be in luck as it looks like it will be available sometime “in the next two weeks.” Of course, that was followed by a “I hope” so while we try and remain...

Reverse GeoCaching Project

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Looks like these Reverse GeoCaching projects are getting more and more popular. We have seen this type of project before but this one is much more of a cool hack than the others. In this project a GPS receiver with a SkyTraq Venus chipset was used but apparently was not that easy to work with.

Verizon BlackBerry Outage Continues, Everyone Blames Everyone

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Something strange is going on with Verizon Blackberries. On Monday we reported on a system-wide outage of BlackBerry phones on Big Red’s network. Initially, this downtime was believed to have been caused by a Verizon update.

Intel announces new Director of Creative Innovation…Will.i.am

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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In a move not dissimilar to Lady Gaga's appointment as Creative Director at Polaroid last year, leading chip manufacturer Intel has announced world famous musician and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am as new "Director of Creative Innovation".

Congressman Proposes New Warning Label For Violent Video Games

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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How many of you have played “violent video games” since you were a wee pup? I certainly have, and you don’t see me stealing cars or robbing banks, do you? Exactly.

Notion Ink Adam Pre-Orders Continuing Soon…For Commenters and Fans

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Notion Ink places a lot of stock in their relationship with their fans. The first stage of pre-orders was initially open only to people who had commented on the company blog before a certain date. Now the next stage of pre-orders is set to begin.

Gold Blackberry. What recession?

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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One way to show that the current economy has no effect on you is to flash your new gold coated Blackberry in front of your peers.  It’s also a sure fire way to bring down a passenger plane if you do it on a sunny day.

AT&T letting some iPhone users go back to unlimited

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AT&T may be allowing some customers go back to unlimited data and reduce the incentive to switch to the Verizon iPhone. A report on Wednesday found that customers who at one point had an unlimited plan but opted for cheaper capped service had the permission to switch back.

Rumor has BlackBerry, PlayBook running Android apps

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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An unusual but reportedly multi-sourced rumor has suggested that RIM might graft Android app compatibility on to its BlackBerry phones and the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Microsoft Adds Office for Mac Trial

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Microsoft’s Office for Mac portal has been a little wonky for us today, which might be the result of increased traffic and downloads. Why, you ask? The Redmond outfit is now offering a free trial of its Office for Mac 2011 software.

Sony Japan Launches Three New Headphones

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Sony has introduced three new headphones in the form of the MDR-XB1000, MDR-XB41EX and MDR-XB21EX. The Sony MDR-XB1000 is a high-end overhead headphones that feature a couple of 70mm dynamic-type driver units with soft and comfortable padding, a 24-Ohm impedance, a 106dB/mW output sound pressure...

Harman Kardon SB 16 Soundbar + Subwoofer Simplifies Home Audio

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Is the surround sound system dead? Not quite, but it's not nearly as necessary as it was just five years ago.

Pixelmator Makes $1 Million From Mac App Store

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Apple’s Mac App Store launched earlier this month, and it seems that some developers are already seeing success with this new way to distribute applications to Mac’s.The developers of Pixelmator, an image editing application for the Mac have announced that their app has reached over $1...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta 10

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Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 10. Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 10 is having available for free download now.Just 10 days after Mozilla released it Firefox 4 beta 9 version they have now jumped to a beta 10 release.

Ben Heck Creates Wind Up Android Smartphone Charger

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Ben Heck is well know for creating custom Xbox and PS3 consoles as well as some other cool mods, now he has created a new gadget for Android smartphones.Ben Heck’s latest creation is a kinetic charger for Android smartphones, the charger features a handle which can be wound up, this then...

Infographic Shows How Gigantic The Internet Has Become

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The team over at Focus have created an infographic to represent some of the huge figures that made up the Internet in 2010.Including statistics that reveal 2 billion videos were watched on YouTube daily, and Facebook received 36 billion photo uploads to its pages in 2010.

Android Market in-app payments in Q1; Google “not happy” with paid app growth

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Google is looking to improve the performance of paid apps in the Android Market with tools like in-app purchases and carrier billing, after Android platform manager Eric Chu told developers this week that the search giant was “not happy” with paid-app growth.

iPhone AppToyz Converts Your iPhone Into a Remote Control For Toys

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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UK company Media Sauce has created a new gadget called AppToyz that connects to your iPhone via the headphone jack and allows you to then remote control either a toy helicopter or car.The AppToyz device has been approved by Apple and when the toys come to market in April should be priced around £50...

Cooler Master Elite 343 computer case debuts

January 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Cooler Master makes some of the best computer cases on the market for gamers and enthusiasts. The latest addition to the chassis line from the company is the Elite 343. The case is a mini tower that is designed to work with Micro-ATX mainboards.

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